Living
To See the Cities and to Know the Men
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
To see the cities and to know the men
Of many lands, in youth was Homer's lot;
In age to visit his far home again
The Gods, who never feel it, granted not.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “To See the Cities and to Know the Men.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/885/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “To See the Cities and to Know the Men.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/885/.
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